Biorefinery as a promising approach to promote microalgae industry: An innovative framework

Zhu, Linna

doi:10.1016/j.rser.2014.09.040

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“…The microalgal biofuels witness an obvious and serious dilemma, where it is found that there is no commercial production on a large scale for bulk application due to the overwhelming investments in capital and operation [74]. Most of all, our limited understanding of microalgae, including microalgal biofuel, will remain the most fundamental cause of the unacceptably high cost of research and production (as well as the discussion in Section 3.2), which is a bottleneck for the further development of microalgal biofuel for a long time to come.…”

Section: The Challenges Of Microalgae Biofuel Production and Recent Amentioning

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“…Biorefinery is an industrial process, where biomass is converted into arrange of biochemicals, materials and energy products, which aims to produce multiple products and maximizing the value derived from different microalgal components [74]. Besides biofuels, various high-value chemical compounds, such as pigments, antioxidants, b-carotenes, polysaccharides, vitamins, and biomass, can be extracted from microalgae, depending on the microalgal compositions, and are largely used as bulk commodities in different industrial sectors [12].…”

Section: Co-production By Biorefinerymentioning

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Microalgal biofuel revisited: An informatics-based analysis of developments to date and future prospects

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Microalgal biofuel revisited: An informatics-based analysis of developments to date and future prospects

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“…Rathore et al [43] evaluated the economic potential of the DMC-mediated process of biofuel and chemical production from renewable oil. The gross profit margin was expected to be 22.81% higher in the DMC-based co-production of biofuels and chemicals due to the high revenue of glycerol carbonate [43,45,91]. Recently, the development of transformer insulating oil from bio-oil has been investigated [92].…”

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Environmentally-Benign Dimethyl Carbonate-Mediated Production of Chemicals and Biofuels from Renewable Bio-Oil

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Due to the increasing emission of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ), the development of fuels and chemicals based on renewable resources has attracted much attention. Bio-oil, as a carbon rich material, has been considered as a feedstock for biodiesel production. In conventional methanol-mediated transesterification of bio-oil for biodiesel production, significant amounts of glycerol are being generated as a byproduct. In order to overcome these issues, dimethyl carbonate (DMC) has been recently used as an alternative acyl acceptor to avoid the generation of glycerol. DMC is an environmentally-benign chemical reagent and reactive solvent due to safety, health, and environmental benefits. Moreover, DMC can be produced from CO 2 . Co-production of biodiesel and chemicals such as glycerol carbonate is possible as the concept of zero-waste utilization of bio-oil. Value-added chemicals can be synthesized using DMC as a reagent. This paper provides a review on the physical and chemical properties of DMC as a solvent, as well as the production methods for DMC. DMC-mediated production of various chemicals and fuels in both chemical and enzymatic processes are discussed together with their pros and cons.

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“…Scenedesmus almeriensis is currently used to feed farmed sea bream and can be used to partly 444 replace fishmeal in practical diets (Zhu, 2015). The nutritional value of some microalgaespecies is rich due to the high quality of their intrinsic proteins that are often of a better quality 446 than some common vegetable proteins (Das et al, 2015).…”

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Biofuel production: tapping into microalgae despite challenges

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8Biofuels provided 2.7% of world's transportation fuel in 2015 which is expected to go up to 9 28% by 2050. However, most of the biofuel produced till date is from crops that can be used 10 as food or feed. Microalgae or most famously the 3 rd generation of biomass has the potential 11to overcome the problems associated with this food vs fuel debate. Microalgae are microscopic 12 photosynthetic organisms which have the ability to fix CO2. Thermochemical conversion via 13 hydrothermal liquefaction is a favourable technology for recovering energy from algal 14 biomass. Research is focused on discovering a viable and sustainable feedstock by cultivating 15and up-scaling the use of microalgae and then utilizing hydrothermal liquefaction to produce a 16 workable biofuel. Synthetic biology and several genetic engineering techniques have also 17shown promising results in the production of biofuels. Plenty of research is being carried out 18 in the field of using microalgae as biomass for biofuel generation; however, it still calls for a 19 robust conversion technology to make the process commercially viable. 20 21 22 23

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Biorefinery as a promising approach to promote microalgae industry: An innovative framework

Cited by 274 publications

References 40 publications

Microalgal biofuel revisited: An informatics-based analysis of developments to date and future prospects

Microalgal biofuel revisited: An informatics-based analysis of developments to date and future prospects

Environmentally-Benign Dimethyl Carbonate-Mediated Production of Chemicals and Biofuels from Renewable Bio-Oil

Biofuel production: tapping into microalgae despite challenges

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